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Amanda 3.5 Released

Hello,

The Amanda core team is pleased to announce the release of Amanda 3.5.

There is one big change over the 3.4 release, it is the use of multiple threads to connect to the client, this fix a long standing bug where a host fail because another host timed out in the connect system call.

The fix require to remove the suid bit from the amservice, amcheck, planner and dumper program, the new ambind program do the privileged instruction.

Source tarballs are available from

http://www.amanda.org

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=120

Binaries for many systems are available from

http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php

Documentation can be found at

http://wiki.zmanda.com

Here's a list of the changes for release 3.5 (from the NEWS file):
Look at the ReleaseNotes and ChangeLog file for more details.